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The Latino Century

By Mike Madrid

Nonfiction

An insightful investigation of how and why the two major political parties have failed to appeal to the Latino vote—the largest ethnic voting group in the country—and the impact it will have on US elections and American democracy and politics…

The Grift

By Clay Cane

Nonfiction

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republicans. Clay Cane lays out how Black Republicanism has been mangled by opportunists who are apologists for…

Swiped

By Dustin Rutledge

Nonfiction

What happens when the woman who helped revolutionize online dating finds herself fighting for her own future? Swiped: The Whitney Wolfe Herd Story of Resilience and Revenge Success takes you behind the headlines to explore the remarkable journey of Whitney…

Snowden’s Box

By Dale Maharidge

Nonfiction

Two behind-the-scenes players in the edward snowden story reflect on the meaning of snowden’s revelations in our age of surveillance One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The…

On Tyranny

By Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times) “Timothy Snyder reasons with…

New Cold Wars

By David E. Sanger

Nonfiction

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The fast-paced inside story of America’s plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon…